Painting highly realistic grass - how to use different brushes for high realism

All you need is some brushes and some linseed oil, as you can see here. Mostly flat and very soft ones. And we start by applying the color for the grass. The grass itself is mixed, always, with some lemon yellow, some phthalo blue, and variations of some additional colors to it, like raw sienna, some white, titanium white in this case, some lamp black, as you can see here. And with these seven colors I mix all of my greens, as you can see here. We apply the colors in a very uneven way. We are working with the white of the canvas in the background quite a bit. And I don't care about the volume in this stage of the painting here. I'm just trying to fill out the white of the canvas and kind of get rid of it. And you see here we have the background green, a bit more bluish one. And we have also here the border, the part where we have the grass, more or less, coming in. And you see I'm already putting on those plates, bunches of plates, more or less, using our fan brush to flash out those plates even more. See here in the detail shot. The background is still wet, just getting some structure here, more or less. Some plates of grass. This video here is available in a full-time version on my Patreon. Link is down below here. We have meanwhile 160 full-time, real-time painting tutorials, between 2 and over 10 hours of pure in-detail painting, the whole color mixing process, lots of tips and tricks. Really make sure to check it out. Then we let the whole thing dry for a couple of days, really bone dry. And then we mix another set of colors. I'm using here this titanium white, some lemon yellow for the detail parts, a bit of a lamp black on top. Now for the flowers that we're gonna put in. Again with the very stiff fan brush. See I'm just stippling on marks onto the dry canvas here. And I'm also using the diminishing amount of color on the brush, as you can see here, to get in some different colored marks. Some a bit more dominant, some a bit more faded out. And so I fill out this part here. And I also use different colors, of course. We have also some warm greens here. I'm using here the tip of this fan brush. See here? I need just some more details. And with just a bit of brush work here you can add tons of flowers and leaves to this whole thing. As important as the connection to the background. And then I start to flash out, 3D out, the grass in the foreground. With a very thin layer of color. Thinned down the colors a bit with some linseed oil. Also already getting in some of those bunches of grass, as you can see here. But just stippling up the color. Going back again, adding some more lemon yellowish detail parts here. Also get a bit darker with a cooler green in this foreground here, another glaze. And also use this very dark bluish-purplish color here. To add some more darkness into those plates of grass areas. I also start now to build up some flowers, some single ones. They of course need some detail parts on top. We also have those parts on the left side. The color is still wet, but it's a very thin glaze here. You can really put on those variations of green. Actually a very yellow one here on top. And this is a very important part here, we need lots of different color variations. So we have these cooler greens, warmer greens. Really a lemon yellow green one. And then I finally add some more little details here and there. Enhancing a bit more the darkness here and there. Some areas again with a very dry brush. Painting some more shadow areas. Volume comes in really nice I think. With a very thin glaze here and there. And that's the finished painting. Thanks for watching. Please hit that like button, also that subscribe button. And don't forget to check out my Patreon. It's down below here. See you next time. Bye!